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10 Jul 2009, 5:02 am

Wrll-Watch, Read, Listen, Look

Meaning do you watching for watching sake or do you watch because of what you are watch. If you could not remember a single thing you read or watched would you still watch/read. Do you enjoy the story lets say more than the act itself?


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10 Jul 2009, 6:39 am

I am not sure I know what you're asking when reading not just the title but all three questions. Care to elaborate?

You mean, do WP users watch for the sake of watching, just to have the eyes do something in a totally mindless way or do they watch something because they are interested in what they watch in some way?

How does that question relate to not being able to remember the content of what you read was or remember what it was that you watched? How would anyone but those who do have similar memory disorders and deficits that result in that they fail to memorise lots of everyday information and information about what they did be able to answer that question correctly? Everybody with no such memory disorders could assume, of course, but assumption tend to be wrong as obvious from the many assumptions that there are about autism and autistic people.

And the story and act of what exactly? A play? A film? A book? Or do you mean the story and act of something different than these examples? Though even for a play the act and the story are of a much different importance than they are for a book or written play, for example. Unless a person ignores those differences in presentation for various personal reasons, people who answer that question would probably be referring to very different 'stories' and 'acts'.


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10 Jul 2009, 10:43 am

Visual Stimuli Fetish, I grok it. I have a stimuli fetish compounded by a knowledge fetish. I came. I saw. I heard. I tasted. I smelled. I felt. I sensed. I left. That is life for everything, and all the rest is details. Details you got to make up for yourself. The stimuli just happen, You choose the story they are telling. You interpret what is. You don't know what is, you just decide what you want to believe is based on your understanding of it. But the understanding is just a game we play to give narrative to the stimuli. The greatest example of humanity one might choose to put forward, is the equal of an amoeba. Life is life, and it leads to life for the meaning of life is living. Don't try, Don't do, Just Be.

I have read biologists who explain that the only thing unique about humanity relative to the other animals as a whole, is that we are the only animal that has a chronological narrative. We are the only organism on our planet that is Time Aware. This is a necessary component of sentience. In order for your perceptions to put meaning to stimuli that results in an acknowledgement of self, the awareness of how the perceptions and stimuli have changed over time in reaction to the stimuli is necessary. The conscious part of you is simply the Temporal Sense. This is the sixth sense of humanity that seperates it from the rest. The awareness of a fourth dimension.

Here is where it gets fun: Time as we perceive it is an illusion. We sense a dimension that doesn't exist. We make it up, use this made up existence to throw ourselves a cognitive bone, and lead our sensory water bags through a journey. We play a game and entertain ourselves with a narrative, and then we die. Through our direction of our senses, some of us managed to come up with experiments that proved to those senses that time is not linear. If time is not linear, and we perceive it in a linear fashion to lay out a chronological timeline of self, we are misperceiving.

All of this is happening for one very basic reason. If it wasn't happening, how would you know it wasn't happening? Lack of reality REQUIRES reality. Up REQUIRES down. Things can not be except by virtue of that which they are not. Ugly creates Beauty. Evil creates Good. This is the asa of Dichotomous Reality.

If there were no reality in which things had the appearance of occurring in a linear fashion, there would be no ability to be realities in which it did not. That which appears to be occurring must be assumed to be occurring, because no other assumption allows one to act. So thewrll is deciding to just watch read listen look and accept that whether it occurs or not doesn't change anything, might as well just be. It doesn't matter what you watch, anything you derive from it is what you derived from it, you could have derived it from anything.

We're Through the Looking Glass Now, Alice.



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10 Jul 2009, 6:41 pm

thewrll wrote:
Wrll-Watch, Read, Listen, Look

Meaning do you watching for watching sake or do you watch because of what you are watch. If you could not remember a single thing you read or watched would you still watch/read. Do you enjoy the story lets say more than the act itself?


I think I know what you mean, but I'm not sure. I sometimes enjoy watching a movie even if I'm not following the storyline, because I like the sets or costumes, or the sounds of the actors' voices, or anything at all. Or sometimes I'll look out the window and watch the patterns of sunlight through the trees, or stand on my patio looking at the bumblebees in the lavender, just because.

I'm not sure if that's what you mean, it sounds like you are talking about just "being" and enjoying the moment, and not trying to specifically gain something from it. Is that what you mean?



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10 Jul 2009, 10:31 pm

Kind of. Do you usually watch lets say for the story or because you are watching something. Like lets say you absolutely hate the movie Twilight. If someone was watching it would you sit down because you are able to watch something anyting or would you leave because you hate that movie?


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12 Jul 2009, 8:04 am

Just wondering would you watch or read something even if you absolutely hated it because you were reading or watching something?


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12 Jul 2009, 3:18 pm

I often instantly forget what I have watched or read, which is a shame really because I have read fairly substantial books (like E.P. Thompson's 'The Making Of The English Working Class') only to be left with a rough idea of what they were all about.

I hope that answers your question!